Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
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Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking.
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I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
